Re: Support for invalid foreign keys

Le 07/03/2011 06:49, Thom Brown a écrit :
> On 7 March 2011 10:18, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This is a new (as in 9.1) feature we have to support in pgAdmin.
>>>
>>> From the git log on https://github.com/gleu/pgadmin3/tree/ticket304:
>>>
>>> Add support for invalid foreign key constraints
>>>
>>> This patch adds a checkbox in the dlgForeignKey dialog, so that the
>>> user can create an "not validated" foreign key. Each foreign key of
>>> this kind is displayed with the usual icon with a red cross on it. A
>>> contextual menu allows the user to force the validation of the
>>> constraint. The user can also do this via the dlgForeignKey dialog.
>>
>> So it basically disables the constraint, leaving it as a sort of
>> documentation of intent?
>
> Yes, I believe the purpose is to allow the creation of a foreign key
> with far less disruptive locking meaning foreign keys can be created
> in parallel.
>

Yeah, you first create the constraint without being disruptive (on big
tables), and you validate the constraint at a time the system is less
used (for example during the night when everyone's asleep :) ).

> Guillaume, you appear to have commented out an if container, while
> also adding a condition to it. Is this supposed to be commented out
> at all?..
>
> + //if (sql.IsNull() || forceRefresh)
>

Well, it was supposed to be deleted. Actually, I was supposed to ask if
anyone knows why there is the "if (sql.IsNull())" check at all (the "||
forceRefresh" is a test I should have deleted). I have no idea why there
is this sql.IsNull() test. It doesn't appear in other same sources.
Dave, any idea?

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